* According to a theorem of Nikolay Nikolov and Dan Segal, in any topologically finitely-generated profinite group ( that is, a profinite group that has a dense finitely-generated subgroup ) the subgroups of finite index are open.

According to Pasternak himself, Stalin declared, " Do not touch this cloud dweller.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

According to Ivinskaya, " After this, in conversation with people he scarcely knew, he always referred to Stalin as a ' murderer.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak had regarded Stalin as a, " giant of the pre-Christian era.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to G. Lisichkin, Marxism – Leninism as a separate ideology was compiled by Stalin in his book " The questions of Leninism ".

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

" According to Stalin, this would exclude Jews as they have no common territory.

" According to various eyewitnesses, Stalin appeared uninterested.

According to Solzhenitsyn's testimony, Stalin merely amplified a concentration camp system that was already in place.

According to Hua-yu Li, writing in Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 in 1953, Mao, misled by glowing reports in History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolshevik ): Short Course, authorized by Stalin of social and economic progress in the Soviet Union, abandoned the liberal economic programs of " New Democracy " and instituted the " general line for socialist transition ", a program to build socialism based on Soviet models.

According to the biography of Zhou, however, Zhou told others that Zhang ’ s application was opposed by Stalin, as he thought Zhang's status as a warlord made him a poor candidate for CPC membership.

According to Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin was very abusive toward Alliluyeva in the later part of their marriage.

According to this decree Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko ( as its president ), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the People's Commissar ( Narkom ) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

According to one source the arrest was partially triggered by letters which he and Raphael Shapiro sent to Stalin, ministers and newspapers about certain decisions made by the Soviet Government, which they believed were erroneous.

According to Time magazine, " A lower court had found that Chambers, in his mistaken identification, had not maliciously implied that Willy was closely associated with ' a Communist leader and spy '," who had been " once ( until Stalin liquidated him ) Communist Hungary's puppet Commissar of War.

According to the editor of a volume of his writings on Spain, Cockburn formed a personal relationship with Mikhail Koltsov, " then the foreign editor of Pravda and, in Cockburn's view, ' the confidant and mouthpiece and direct agent of Stalin in Spain '.

According to Kalugin, Stone followed a practice of having lunch with a Soviet press attaché from time to time, but broke off this luncheon relationship after his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1956 and after hearing Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime.

According to Gaddis, Stalin was in a much better position to compromise than his Western counterparts, given his much broader power within his own regime than Truman, who had to contend with Congress and was often undermined by vociferous political opposition at home.

According to Simon Sebag Montefiore, Joseph Stalin regarded Tukhachevsky as his bitterest rival and dubbed him Napoleonchik ( little Napoleon ).

According to Orlov, Stalin uncovered the conspiracy and used Yezhov to execute those responsible.

According to Montefiore, Stalin had always known that the Red Army was the only institution which could have resisted his quest for absolute power.

According to archival evidence Stalin called Platonov " fool, idiot, scoundrel ", then later in the same meeting said Platonov was " a prophet, a genius.

According to Zeno, the map and letters date from around the year 1400 and purportedly describe a long voyage made by the Zeno brothers in the 1390s under the direction of a prince named Zichmni.

According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potemkin in order to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.

According to Time Magazine, tubing was purportedly invented in Thailand by Princess Chumbhot of Nagar Svarga sometime in the middle of the 20th century.

According to legend, the Sensō Temple was founded in 628 after two fishermen found a gold statuette of Kannon in the Sumida River, at which time golden dragons purportedly ascended into heaven.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

According to Locke, a general idea is created by abstracting, drawing away, or removing the uncommon characteristic or characteristics from several particular ideas.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to Carl Mitcham, " the Christian mythology of progress toward transcendent salvation " created the conditions for modern ideas of scientific and technological progress.

According to Bent Corydon, Hubbard created the illusion that Dianetics was the first psychotherapy to address traumatic experiences in their own time, but others had done so as standard procedure.

According to Zamenhof, he created this language to foster harmony between people from different countries.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

According to Zohar, Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time as Adam.

According to Jewish esoteric teachings, the Hebrew letters are the lifeforce of all things created, determining their essence.

According to Irenaeus, Christ, being born out of the Virgin Mary, created a totally new historical situation.

According to reputable license plate collectors, a number of " Johnston Atoll license plates " were created as souvenirs, and have even been sold on-line to collectors, but they were not officially issued.

According to the story, the calf tries to hide under Judah haNasi's robes, bellowing with terror, but he pushes the animal away, saying: " Go — for this purpose you were created.

According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist.

Ashcroft has penned and sung a number of other songs and created compilation tapes, including In the Spirit of Life and Liberty and Gospel ( Music ) According to John.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

According to Agassiz the conditions in which particular creatures live “ are the conditions necessary to their maintenance, and what among organized beings is essential to their temporal existence must be at least one of the conditions under which they were created ”.

According to Agassiz ’ s theory of polygenism animals, plants and humans were all created in “ special provinces ” each having distinct populations of species created in and for that province.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.